"There's no place for multiplayer in so strongly a story-driven game as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt," says CD Projekt RED's head of marketing, Michal Platkow-Gilewski. Instead, CD Projekt RED would prefer to concentrate on creating a perfect single-player experience, "delivering more than 100 hours of truly immersive gameplay," Platkow-Gilewski promises, in a world that's designed to be 36 times the size of that in The Witcher 2. After all, thinks CD Projekt RED, telling a story is an art form; it's hard enough to do without trying to keep multiple Geralts happy.

Nor are QTEs welcome at the CD Projekt party; they've been removed completely from The Witcher 3. CD Projekt came to the conclusion that QTEs usually frustrated players, and really only work in a specific set of circumstances. "There is a small number of games where it is fun," says project lead Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, "like, for example, in the Uncharted series, where you don't even realize that you've just finished a QTE sequence." But what works for Uncharted won't work for an RPG, hence why CD Projekt feels the immersion-killing QTE has no place in The Witcher 3.

CD Projekt hasn't changed its stance on DRM, you'll be pleased to hear. "DRM is the worst thing in the gaming industry," Tomaszkiewicz went on to say. "It's limiting our rights to play games owned by us." It's just punishing legal users, he says, and does nothing to deter piracy. Even The Witcher has its share of pirates, but Tomaszkiewicz takes comfort in the fact that Witcher fans actively persecute people who download Geralt's adventures via torrent. "Our fans out there really appreciate that we trust them," says Tomaszkiewicz, "and that we treat them with honesty and respect."

The Witcher 3 is due for simultaneous release on next-gen consoles and PC in 2014.

I actually thought that the little QTE fighting minigame was kinda fun in the Witcher 2. Most importantly, it fell within the constraints of the minigame and did not affect the story at all. I'm not holding it against them if they want to get rid of QTEs altogether though.

Genocidicles:Hopefully this means there won't be any multiplayer in Cyberpunk 2077 either.

I don't see how you can categorically dismiss multiplayer from the outset. So little is known about the game. For all you know, they could come up with amazing multiplayer.

I'm not saying the above poster is doing just this, but I'm noticing a disturbing trend/meme on message boards nowadays akin to the blind CoD hate trend, where people just rag on multiplayer because it's what everyone else is doing and saying.

Blindly hating on something is just as dumb as blindly implementing a feature.

Sushewakka:Yet the Witcher 2 had DRM during launch and the first few weeks after launch. I wish they actually stood by the message they give at all times, rather than just when it's safe to do so.

The retail version did have DRM, most likely enforced by the publisher OR a left-over from the pre-release reviews (Most likely the first one, but I have heard the latter theory thrown around). They also rather quickly removed it and apologized for it being on that version. Given that one version had no DRM, and that the first one didn't, it was most likely an enforced requirement or a left over that wasn't removed.

Sushewakka:Yet the Witcher 2 had DRM during launch and the first few weeks after launch. I wish they actually stood by the message they give at all times, rather than just when it's safe to do so.

The version on GOG was DRM free from day one, the DRM was only of the retail disk copy, in other word was most likely imposed by the publisher of the retail version.

I bought the collectors edition and it didn't seem to have DRM (played just fine off-line and I didn't have to register it). Maybe it was only the vanilla edition, or it wasn't there at all and people are just making stuff up. Either way CD Projekt has become my favorite company.

I like more sandbox type RPGs so I bought Witcher 2 more likely because their custommer satisfaction mindset.

BUT: I had to download it from torrent because physical DVD version included online activation (they removed it later) which was not working for some reason, so I coudn't play it on the day of the release.

God damnit, for some reason,(because I'm an idiot) when I first glanced over this headline I read it as "No Room For Story In Multiplayer Driven Witcher 3", and I almost exploded.Anyway, good on CD Projekt, it's companies like them that are going to keep the AAA games industry from collapsing in on itself.

No matter how much praise I can give these guys it isn't enough and they should be heard and other devs should follow this example, not nickle and dime their consumers to death with their milked franchises.

You will always be first in my heart when it comes to my games purchases CDPR.

PS: Death to tacked on multiplayer in singleplayer story driven games!